Sketching Froanna
Emma Margetson
Programme notes
This 8-channel composition is in response to the sketch Froanna by Wyndham Lewis. Considering the lines, colours, shapes, and shading of the sketch this composition uses close-up microphone recordings of chalk on paper with blue noise and electronic sounds to transport the listener to an abstract interpretation of the emotive content of the work… a portrait of Lewis’ wife, Froanna. Follow the gestural strokes of chalk on paper… What do you hear
… a perpetual gaze…
… a clasped posture…
… a wife who was hidden from view…
… intensity…
… a sense of strain…
… an unfolding from the colour…
… blue…
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Sketching Froanna was realized in 2019 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on May 14, 2019 during the Nocturnes
Premiere
- May 14, 2019, Nocturnes
: A Woman Refigured, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts — University of Birmingham – Photograph Room, Birmingham (England, UK)
- Composer(s): Emma Margetson
- Year of composition: 2019
- Duration: 9:37
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
- ISRC: CAD502410052
